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Akira Miyawaki (宮脇 昭, Miyawaki Akira, 29 January 1928 – 16 July 2021 [2]) was a Japanese botanist and an expert in plant ecology who specialized in seeds and natural forests.
He was born on 9 October 1889 in West End, [1] Hampshire, to John Richard St. Barbe Baker and Charlotte Purrott.He was brother of Thomas Guillaume St. Barbe Baker.Another brother James Scott St. Barbe Baker, followed Baker to Canada, applied for a neighbouring homestead and applied for work in Electrical Engineering working on Saskatoon's early electrical streetcars until World War I broke out.
An afforestation project in Rand Wood, Lincolnshire, England (this patch was open ground before) Afforestation is the establishment of a forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no recent tree cover. [1] There are three types of afforestation: natural regeneration, agroforestry and tree plantations. [2] Afforestation has many benefits.
Yosef Weitz, 1945. Yosef Weitz (Hebrew: יוסף ויץ; 1890–1972) was the director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). From the 1930s, Weitz played a major role in acquiring land for the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Afforestation is the planting of trees for commercial purposes. The supply of wood and wood products from afforested areas has prevented the overuse and destruction of natural forests. Instead of taking resources from existing natural forests, afforestation is a process used to plant trees and use them as resources instead of naturally existing ...
An afforestation project in Rand Wood, Lincolnshire, England (this patch was open ground before) Afforestation is the establishment of a forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no recent tree cover. [51] There are three types of afforestation: natural regeneration, agroforestry and tree plantations. [52] Afforestation has many benefits.
A satellite image of the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other ecological systems that support life.
Afforestation efforts in Scotland have provided an increase in woodland expansion. By the 20th century mark, Scotland had diminished woodland coverage to 5% of Scotland's land area. [ 1 ] However, by the early 21st century, afforestation efforts have increased woodland coverage to 17%.